Leo. I don't know what's come over her, sir ; | ing for love of you; can you fiud in your heart I never saw the like of her, since I was born. to let him expire? Lean. I wish she was at the devil! Leo. Ursula, what's the matter with you? Ursula. What's the matter with me! Marry come up, what's the matter with you? Signior Diego can't shew such a shape as that; well, there is nothing I like better to see than a young fellow with a well made leg. Lean. Pr'ythee, let us go away from her. Leo. I don't know how to do it, sir. Lean. Nothing more easy; I will go with my guitar into the garden; 'tis moon-light; take an opportunity to follow me there: I sware to you, beautiful and innocent creature, you have nothing to apprehend. Leo. No, sir, I am certain of that, with a gentleman such as you are; and that have taken so much pains to come after me; and I should hold myself very ungrateful, if I did not do any thing to oblige you, in a civil way. Lean. Then you'll come? Leo. I'll do my best endeavours, sir. Lean. And may I hope that you love me? Leo. I don't know; as to that, I can't say. Ursula. Come, come, what colloguing's here? I must see how things are going forward; besides, sir, you ought to know, that it is not manners to be getting into corners, and whispering before company. Lean. Pshaw! Ursula. Let me sit down a little : come hither, child, I am going to give you good advice; therefore listen to me, for I have more years over my head than you. Leo. Well, and what then? Ursula. What then? Marry, then you must mind what I say to you-as I said before-but, I say what was I saying? Leo. I'm sure I don't know. Ursula. You see the young man that is gone out there; he has been telling me, that he's dy Leo. I'm sure I won't do any thing bad. Ursula. Why, that's right; you learned that from me; have I not said to you a thousand times, never do any thing bad? Have not I said it ?_Answer me that. Leo. Well, and what then? Ursula. Very well, listen to me; your guardian is old, and ugly, and jealous; and yet he may live longer than a better man. Leo. He has been very kind to me, for all that, Ursula, and I ought to strive to please him. Ursula There again! have not I said to you a thousand times, that he was very kind to you, and you ought to strive to please him? It would be a hard thing to be preaching from morning till night without any profit. Leo. Well, Ursula, after all, I wish this gentleman had never got into the house; Heaven send no ill comes of it! Ursula. Ay, I say so, too; Heaven send it; but I'm cruelly afraid; for how shall we get rid of him? he'll never be able to crawl up the inside of the wall, whatever he did the out. Leo. O Lord! Won't he? Ursula. No, by my conscience, won't he ; and when your guardian comes in, if we had fifty necks a-piece, he'd twist them every one, if he finds him here. For my part, the best I expect, is to end my old days in a prison. Leo. You don't say so! Ursula. I do indeed; and it kills me to think of it; but every one has their evil day, and this has been mine. Leo. I have promised to go to him into the garden. Ursula. Nay, you may do any thing now, for we are undone; though I think, if you could persuade him to get up the chimney, and stay on the roof of the house till to-morrow night, we might then steal the keys from your guardian; but I'm afraid you won't be able to persuade him. Leo. I'll go down upon my knees. Ursula. Find him out, while I step up stairs. Leo. Pray for us, dear Ursula. Ursula. I will, if I possibly can. [Erit. SCENE II.-Inside of DON DIEGO's House. Enter DON DIEGO, groping his way, with the Don Diego. All dark, all quiet; gone to bed, and fast asleep, I warrant them. However, I am not sorry that I altered my first intention of staying out the whole night; and meeting Leonora's father on the road was, at any rate, a lucky incident. I will not disturb them; but, since I have let myself in with my master-key, go softly to bed; I shall be able to strike a light; and then, I think, I may say my cares are over.Good Heavens! what a wonderful deal of uneasiness may mortals avoid by a little prudence! I doubt not now, there are some men who would have gone out in my situation, and trusting to the goodness of Fortune, left their house and their honour in the care of an inexperienced girl, or the discretion of a mercenary servant. While he is abroad, he is tormented with fears and jealousies; and when he returns home, he probably finds disorder, and, perhaps, shame. But what do I do?-I put a padlock on my door, and all is safe. Enter MUNGO from the Cellar, with a Flask in one Hand, and a Candle in the other. Mungo. Tol, lol, lol, lol. Don Diego. Hold ! did not I hear a noise? Don Diego. Heaven and earth! what do I see! Mungo. Where are you, young massa, and missy? Here wine for supper. Don Diego. I'm thunder-struck! Don Diego. Wretch! do you know me? Don Diego. Go, lie down in your stye and sleep! Mungo. Sleep! sleep you self; you drunkha, ha, ha ! look, a padlock; you put a padlock on a door again, will you?- -Ha, ha, ha! Don Diego. Did not I hear music?Mungo. Hic-hic Don Diego. Was it not the sound of a guitar? Give me hand; you're old rascal-an't you? Mungo. Yes, he play on de guitar rarely I'm in a cold sweat ; a mist comes over my eyes; Don Diego. What dreadful shock affects me! and my knees knock together, as if I had got a fit of the shaking palsy. Mungo. I tell you a word in your earDon Diego. Has any stranger broke into my house? Mungo. Yes; by-hic-a fine young gentle- them togeder. Don Diego. Confusion! distraction! I shall run inad! O wherefore this terrible flurry! My heart in my bosom a bumping, Is't a spectre I see! My senses deceive me ; Soon reason will leave me : What a wretch am I destined to be. [Exeunt. Don Diego. Horrid creature! -what makes SCENE III.-A Room in DoN DIEGO's House. you here at this time of night? is it with a design to surprise the innocents in their beds, and murder them sleeping? Mungo. Hush, hush-make no noise -bic. -hic Don Diego. The slave is intoxicated! Mungo. Make no noise, I say; dere's young gentleman wid young lady; he play on guitar, and she like him better dan she like you. Fal, lal, lat. Don Diego. Monster, I'll make an example of you! dog? call me names for, you old Don Diego. Does the villain dare to lift his hand against me! Mungo. Will you fight! Don Diego. He's mad! MUNGO, URSULA, LEANDER, LEONORA. Ursula. O shame, monstrous! you drunken swab, you have been in the cellar, with a plague to you! Mungo. Let me put my hands about your neck Ursula. Oh, I shall be ruined! Help, help! ruin, ruin! Lean. Goodness me, what's the matter? Ursula. O dear child, this black villain has frightened me out of my wits; he has wanted Mungo. Me! curse a heart, I want noting wid her-what she say I want for Leo. Ursula, the gentleman says he has some friends waiting for him at the other side of the Mungo. Dere's one in de house you little tink. garden wall, that will throw him over a ladder Gad, he do you business! made of ropes, which he got up by. Don Diego. Leonora, what am I to think of this? Leo. Oh, dear sir, don't kill me! Don Diego. Young man, who are you, who have thus clandestinely, at an unseasonable hour, broke into my house? Am I to consider you as a robber, or how? Lean. As one, whom love has made indiscreet; one, whom love taught industry and art to compass his designs. I love the beautiful Leonora, and she me; but, farther than what you hear and see, neither one nor the other have been culpable. Mungo. Hear him, hear him! Lean. Don Diego, you know my father well; Don Alphonso de Luna. I am a scholar of this university, and am willing to submit to whatever punishment he, through your means, shall inflict; but wreak not your vengeance here. Don Diego. Thus, then, my hopes and cares are at once frustrated! Possessed of what I thought a jewel, I was desirous to keep it for myself; I raised up the walls of this house to a great height; I barred up my windows towards the street; I put double bolts on my doors; I banished all that had the shadow of man, or male kind; and I stood continually centinel over it myself, to guard my suspicion from surprise: thus secure, I left my watch for one little moment, and in that moment Leo. Pray, pray, guardian, let me tell you the story, and you'll find I am not to blame." Don Diego. No, child, I only am to blame, who should have considered, that sixteen and sixty agree ill together. But, though I was too old to be wise, I am not too old to learn; and so, I say, send for a smith directly, beat all the grates from my windows, take the locks from my doors, and let egress and regress be given freely. Leo. And will you be my husband, sir? Don Diego. No, child, I will give you to one that will make you a better husband: here, young man, take her. If your parents consent, to mor row shall see you joined in the face of the church; and the dowry, which I promised her, in case of failure on my side of the contract, shall now go with her as a marriage portion. Lean. Signior, this is so generous Don Diego. No thanks; perhaps I owe acknowledgements to you: but you, Ursula, have no excuse, no passion to plead, and your age should have taught you better. I'll give you five hundred crowns, but never let me see you While each with tender passion burns, Lean. To sum up all you now have heard, A female trusted to your care, 2 N 2 Wag. He does not come or send, child. Pru. No-What do you do here, then, and be hanged to you! Wag. I only bring a letter. Pru. Very pretty jesting, truly! I was afraid that some of the family would take notice of my talking to you in the hall. But, in truth, here is no place of safety in the house; for now I've brought you up here, I'm afraid every moment of my master's surprising us. Wag. Does the old gentleman always keep the house, then? Pru. Keep the house !-he generally keeps his chamber, and very often his bed. You must know he's one of those folks, that are always sick, continually complaining, ever taking physic, and, |